Tag: Learning

Liu, Xiangmin and Batt, Rosemary (2010). How Supervisors Influence Performance: A Multilevel Study of Coaching and Group Management in Technology-Mediated Services. Articles & Chapters, Paper 347. Along with the increased emphasis on workplace learning, evidence also is accumulating that organizations are…

PwC (2007). Managing tomorrow’s people. 36 p. The Blue World Big company capitalism rules as organisations continue to grow bigger and individual preferences trump beliefs about social responsibility. This strategy has led to an increase in staff retention rates as…

Ghraber, G. 2001. “Ecologies of Creativity: the Village, the Group, and the Heterarchic Organisation of the British Advertising Industry.” Environment & Planning A, 33: 351-374. The first wave (1899) advertising of the US multinational agencies was more utilitarian, focusing on…

Cohen, W. et D. Levinthal. 1990. «Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation». Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, p. 128-152. March and Simon (1958:188) suggested that most innovations result from borrowing rather than invention. The ability to evaluate and…

March, J. 1991. «Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning», Organization Science, Vol. 2, N. 1, p. 71-87. The Exploration / Exploitation Trade-off Information about the distribution is accumulated over time, but choices must be made between: Gaining new information about…